Groceries & Meals

11 posts

Seven dinners for two, each under five dollars. The recipes, the receipt and which ones Tyler asked for again.

A Saturday in Debbie's kitchen in Kirksville, two bushels of tomatoes and 21 quart jars. The honest cost per jar.

I scanned every receipt for twelve months. The real total, the time it took and whether I'm keeping it up.

No yard to dig up, a landlord who likes his grass. What we planted in five-gallon buckets, what it cost and what it produced by July.

Two weeks of cooking from what was already in the cupboard and freezer. What we spent, what we ate and the can of something we never opened.

$Friendsgiving potluck math: what we brought for $22$

Kayla's apartment, nine people, one oven. Our dish, what it cost, and the leftovers trade that made it worth it.

When I'm at the pharmacy until 9, nobody wants to cook. Six freezer meals I make on a Sunday and what a batch costs.

Burgers, brats, a huge pan of beans, Debbie's potato salad and a cooler of ice. What we bought, what people brought and what was left.

Twelve-hour days at the plant need real food. The lunches he'll actually eat, what they cost and the gas station pizza we gave up.

It's an hour each way. What a full cart costs there compared with shopping in town, minus the gas, over three months of receipts.